AJF Artist Award 2014 – DEADLINE : 30 SEPT. 2014

AJF Artist Award 2014 The purpose of Art Jewelry Forum’s Artist Award is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of emerging artists and to advance the career of a promising artist at an early stage in his/her career.

DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

 

An unrestricted cash award of $7500 will be given each year. The winning recipient will be given a one-year membership to AJF. The winning artist is expected to travel to an art fair, to be determined, for the award presentation where s/he will deliver a 10-minute presentation about their work.

 

ENTRY CRITERIA

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Maker of wearable art jewelry
• Age 35 or younger at the time of application deadline (September 30, 2014)
• Not currently enrolled in an academic or other professional training program
• Work submitted must have been unsupervised.
• Submitted work must have been completed within the previous two years, i.e., for the 2014 award, work must be completed between 2012 and 2014.
• Applicants who applied previously for the award must submit new work in the current application; that is, work previously submitted in an AJF award application may not be resubmitted in the new application.

Note: Applicants may have had or be scheduled to have a solo exhibition of their work.

 

Applications must be received by midnight September 30, 2014

must be submitted via the Café website (www.callforentry.org)

 

JURORS
Jurors for this year’s competition are Sooyeon Kim, jewelry artist and winner of the 2013 award, Carin Reinders, Director of the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and Karen Rotenberg, founder and director of Alianza Contemporary Crafts and a collector of contemporary jewelry.